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Miriam's post on personal experience vs. research statistics
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Kathy Dettwyler <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:11:58 -0600
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>This is not in any way to suggest that we stop talking about the health
>benefits of breastfeeding or spreading the word on the research-based data.
>Just some food for thought on why it's sometimes so hard to convince people
>it's important.


This has been discussed in some detail before on LactNet.  Search the 95-96
archives for "anecdotal" or "epidemiological" and that will take you at
least some of the posts on this topic.

Kathy Dettwyler
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